Olinto modular bookcase designed by designer Kazuhide Takahama for Cassina. Wonderful bookcase, the result of the fusion of oriental design with Italian quality. Refined and elegant, this modular bookcase is able to furnish an environment with its sparkling personality. Made in the 1960s in solid red-orange lacquered wood. Kazuhide Takahama was a great Japanese designer genius of Italian design thanks to the chance knowledge, during the setting up of the Japan pavilion at the Triennale in Milan, with Dino Gravina, with whom he collaborated throughout his life. Cassina was founded in Meda in 1927 by Cesare and Umberto Cassina and is still one of the leading designers, has created, in collaboration with the greatest designers, to many of the most famous pieces of the history of Italian design. This piece of furniture has been designed by the designer to be adaptable to your needs, in fact, you could choose the amount of modules and different types this specifically consists of: two modules with shelves only; a module with lacquered doors at the bottom and glass doors throughout the height and a module with lacquered doors in both the upper and lower part with glass doors in the central part. The furniture despite its current configuration is still modifiable being for the modular note. The bookcase is in excellent state of preservation, presents some slight and obvious sign of time as in the photo but has no marked defects. The doors still possess all their original keys. The name of the library is a dedication by Takahama to Father Olinto Marella charitable soul beatified in 2020.